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  • Babies in the Budget Summit 2025

    Advocates, experts, and Congressional staff analyzed findings from Babies in the Budget 2025, a forthcoming report from First Focus on Children that tracks federal investment in the nation’s infants, babies, and toddlers.

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  • Children's Budget 2025

    Children's Budget 2025 finds that the share of federal spending on children has declined for the fourth straight year, hitting its lowest point since the previous Trump Administration.

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  • Project 2025 + Kids

    Our policy team analyzes the granular policy agenda intended to serve as the “playbook” for a Republican presidential administration. This extremist agenda proposes measures that would leave America’s children poorer, sicker, and less likely to become productive citizens. Our series explores some of the most harmful proposals.

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  • Babies in the Budget 2024

    The 2024 Babies in the Budget book analyzes the share of federal spending allocated to our nation’s youngest. Overall, our analysis finds that for the third straight year, the share of federal spending on children ages 0-3 declined, from just 1.98% in FY 2021 to a mere 1.52% in FY 2024.

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Spotlight on children’s budget


For more than 15 years, First Focus on Children has produced our annual Children’s Budget, an analysis of the funding — and therefore the value — that we as a nation place on our children. The Children’s Budget offers U.S. leaders and lawmakers a comprehensive picture of where and how we spend our money on children, and what changes we must make to better prioritize them in federal budget and policy decisions.

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